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La Liga more important than Champions League - Busquets

Barcelona clinched the Liga title on Sunday and Sergio Busquets feels that is more important than winning the UEFA Champions League.

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Written ByRyan Benson

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Sergio Busquets believes that claiming the Liga title is more
important for newly-crowned champions Barcelona than potential UEFA
Champions League success.

Barcelona headed to Atletico Madrid on Sunday needing to match
Real Madrid's result at Espanyol to secure a 23rd Liga trophy and,
while Cristiano Ronaldo's hat-trick inspired Carlo Ancelotti's men
to a 4-1 win, the Catalans cruised.

Lionel Messi scored the only goal of the game with 25 minutes to
go against an Atletico side far from their best and that proved to
be enough, as Barca won the title for the seventh time in 10
years.

A treble is now on the cards as Barca prepare for finals in both
the Copa del Rey and Champions League, but Busquets is adamant that
winning La Liga is the most crucial.

"It [La Liga] is the most important," he is quoted as saying by
AS. "It is all year and you play everyone home and away. The
Champions League is the most prestigious, but this is more
important.

"Last year we struggled a lot - we were not at the level of
champions. This year we have been on the right track.

"This is the first [trophy], now it is time to celebrate because
it is the most difficult competition.

"You can't win every year. The cycle is not over. We are a very
young team and there are a lot of players here from the Pep
[Guardiola] era.

"Now we have one trophy, we are missing two and there are two
games to go. It is an historic season."